Meet the Mental Health Association of Oregon
Beckie Child - Board President
Beckie Child has helped create peer-operated drop-in centers and several peer-operated non-profit organizations. Beckie has provided individual advocacy services, consulted with people who use mental health services and have challenging issues, and advocates on systemic issues at local, state, and national levels. She attends Portland State University and is working on an MSW and Ph.D. in social work and social research. Beckie developed a curriculum to teach people how to talk to their prescribers about medication. She is a former chairperson and current member of the Oregon Advocacy Center’s PAIMI Council and a board member of Oregon Advocacy Center. Beckie is a member of the Oregon Addictions and Mental Health Services’ Trauma Advisory Council, the Consumer-Survivor Council and various other committees. Beckie self-identifies as a person who experiences mental health challenges and uses mental health services.
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Meghan Caughey - Board Member
Meghan Caughey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up loving to draw and make art. When she was a freshman in college, she had her first hospitalization for mental health issues and over the course of the next thirty years, there would be over one hundred hospitalizations, including shock treatments, restraints, and seclusion rooms.
Despite the hospitalizations, she completed her MA and MFA degrees in visual art. Over the last nine years she has found what it takes for her to break the cycle of hospitalizations and is grateful to be living in recovery, working as Peer Wellness Coordinator for Benton County Health Services in Corvallis, Oregon. She developed and promotes peer-led wellness support groups. She also pursues work as an artist and writer. Meghan is a national speaker on wellness, art, and recovery.
R. Drake Ewbank - Treasurer and Secretary
Rollin Shelton
Jim Underwood
Mental Health America of Oregon
Regional Research Institute
Portland State University
PO Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
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503-725-4180 (fax)
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